1.   AT FIRST, laughter seems impossible.

2.   Except, of course, that laughter seems to be a divine gift and we would all shrivel up and die without a little levity now and then.

3.   He laughs, but even three and a half decades after the events, the laughter seems laced with hurt.

4.   Laughter seems to be a big part of their relationship.

5.   Laughter seems to trigger a relex that can bring many of the muscles of the body to the point of collapse.

6.   She is laughing out loud, thinking back on the way she interrogated her father, and her laughter seemed perfectly reasonable.

7.   Their laughter seemed to dismiss the male view as out-of-date or misguided.

8.   With his friend, Pharley, he roams the world, trying to understand why laughter seems to have disappeared.

9.   Yet despite my admiration, the laughter seemed understandable.